Sex video: Anwar files counter-claim against Hishammuddin

By M Mageswari, The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is seeking for unspecified damages from Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein for slander in relation to the sex video implicating him.

Anwar has filed his counter-claim against Hishammuddin’s defamation suit.

He is also seeking for costs, interest and other relief deemed fit by the court.

Hishammuddin has accused Anwar of defaming him and has sought a High Court order for the Opposition Leader to make a public apology for linking him to the release of the sex video.

He wants Anwar to pay him costs, interests and any other relief deemed fit by the court.

In his suit, Hishammuddin said Anwar had linked him to the tape when he spoke to the media outside the Dang Wangi police headquarters on March 22 after lodging a police report over the tape, which showed a woman and a man resembling the Opposition Leader having sex.